tinkles

More often it sleeps, and smiles in its sleep; and then the lighter and unconsidered coinage tinkles as it rolls under the impulse of playfully indifferent touches.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

He never brings his wife, though; but Mother's always asking for her, clear and distinct, and she always smiles, and her voice kind of tinkles like little silver bells.

Mary Marie 1920

He never brings his wife, though; but Mother's always asking for her, clear and distinct, and she always smiles, and her voice kind of tinkles like little silver bells.

Mary Marie 1894

The coral actually "tinkles" like wind chimes each time the waves lap up on shore.

TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

The bell over the door tinkles its bright tune and I turn towards the sound, eyes skimming the front window as I do.

Free « A Fly in Amber 2010

We have held the north-east trade for days now, and the miles roll off behind us as the patent log whirls and tinkles on the taffrail.

CHAPTER XIX 2010

She saw a pinpoint of light, far away, kaleidoscoping larger and brighter, a collage of colors filled with the music of the universe, soft tinkles in different tones.

ALIEN LIFE • by A. S. Andrews 2009

The soundtrack is wall-to-wall sinister tinkles; sporadic chapter cards – "The Devils Grave Raider's Breath" sic – prove more baffling than useful.

Revenge: A Love Story – review 2011

Ten minutes later the bell tinkles again and Lon cracks the door.

The Last of Boland Kilean Kennedy 2011

Not that it lacks more straightforward ways of hitting the dancefloor sweet spot: Flashy Flashy is asweetly irresistible singspiel duet between Allien and a pitched-down version of herself, while on highlights Our Utopie and Ever, she allies music-box tinkles to big, banging techno grooves tosuperb effect.

Ellen Allien: Dust 2010